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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 12:40 PM
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Wow, did you know that homeopaths can cure Lyme Disease?
Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne disease in the United States, and is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States. It is generating an enormous amount of controversy within the orthodox medical community, who remain divided over whether Lyme disease can become a chronic disease with reoccurring symptoms or whether patients who complain of reoccurring Lyme-like symptoms are not infected with another type of illness, such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.



Thankfully, the Homeopathic community remains united over the treatment of Lyme disease, mainly due to the different philosophy that homeopaths use to treat disease.


I was going to keep taking antibiotics and following my doctor's advice, but those homeopaths are so much more confident, and they use lots of strange words and medical terms so they must know what they're doing!


Proper case management is the key to treating Lyme disease effectively. Case management is actually much more than just choosing a remedy and sending someone home. It involves first, a careful analysis of the progression of the disease, to treat the symptoms that are present at the time of the initial analysis as well as to help the patient prevent future pathology. This results in every case being individually repertorized and chosen for the particular person and their specific symptoms. In most cases, however, if the person knows that they were bitten by a tick, and they are also showing the telltale circular rash, I tend to first attack the disease with the Borrellia nosode or a nosode culled from the particular tick that the person contacted. After that I will use specific remedies that work best in the earlier stages of the disorder. Some of the Homeopathic Remedies that I have used successfully in my practice are Sepia, Sulphur, Tellurium, Ledum, Syphilynum, Carcinocin, Kalmia, Arnica, Rhod, Bryonia, Gelsemium, Rhus Tx., Arsenicum, Apis, Hypericum, Ruta, Symphytum, Silica, Cimic, Arg. Nit., Mercury, Colch, Pulsatilla, Lac Caninium, and Thuja. I know other Homeopathic Doctors who have had success using other remedies as well. Remember, proper case management uses a “totality of the symptoms” approach for treatment, which can only be accomplished by an experienced practitioner. In the later or chronic stages of Lyme's disease, I would include (along with the appropriate nosode therapy mentioned above) a miasmatic remedy to work through genetic weaknesses, using the health history of the patient as a guide. Then I would follow that remedy with the remedies that fits the person's individual symptoms.

I feel ever so much better now.

And look, they're doing it for free because they care about me!:

Homeo Help Line
For timely help with acute concerns. Includes recommendations for Homeopathics and Herbs.
Service available Monday-Friday 12:00-7:00pm via phone (call 412-243-3010) or email at ***.com
Fee: Clients, $85.00-$120.00; Non-Clients, $120.00 (credit card required); After hours, holidays and weekend help Lines, $150.00

http://www.cindeegardner.com/boom11.htm

I'm using the homeobonics definition of free, of course, what it really means is that they charge more than an accredited medical professional.

And, hey, if they can't cure me, I can always fall back on Imagery!:

Envision the Lyme spirochete, a coiled organism that causes the disease, as looking like a deer tick, a tiny, dark brown bug with a round body and eight legs. See it swimming in your bloodstream, says Elizabeth Ann Barrett, R.N., Ph.D., professor and coordinator of the Center for Nursing Research at Hunter College of the City University of New York in New York City. Now see yourself also swimming in your bloodstream, holding a candle. As you approach the Lyme disease spirochete, point the candle at the organism. Watch it shrivel up from the heat and die. Do this until all of the deer tick spirochetes are dead. Feel yourself recovering from the disease. Dr. Barrett suggests that you do this imagery once a day in the morning, taking as long as you need to complete it.

http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/21/152.cfm


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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 02:57 PM
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1. Well, I didn't before, but I do now...
thanks for posting this.

Oh, and homeobonics may be my new favourite word.

:hi:

Sid

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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 03:04 PM
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2. Just think of all the fun we could have compiling that dictionary...
:D
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-09-08 02:54 PM
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3. IV antibiotics knocked mine out in 3 days.
I'll think if I am ever unlucky enough to get it again I'll stick with that treatment.

David
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 07:34 PM
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4. How soon did you receive treatment after you were bitten?
And was it penicillin or another antibiotic?
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 08:22 PM
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5. 3 1/2 to 4 months.
Not sure which antibiotic, it was 9 or 10 years ago.

David
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 08:39 PM
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6. So you must have been pretty sick.
And since it still knocked it out of your system, my guess is it was penicillin.

I'm hoping I'm over it but I have no idea what to expect anymore, the symptoms are so common how would you even know you were really ill?
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 08:58 PM
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7. The exhaustion was so bad after 3 months that suicide was rapidly becoming an option.
I had forgotten about the tick when I started having symptoms. I finally read an article in a Hunting Magazine (of all places) at an uncle's house and recognized the symptoms. Went to the doctor the next day and after the third day of IV antibiotics I was feeling so much better I was amazed. After about a week I was back to about 75% it took me about 2 months to put the 25 pounds back on though. I don't remember the antibiotic but I also don't remember it being new or expensive. Penicillin would seem logical with that in mind.

David
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 10:01 PM
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8. Thanks for the info.
The doctor at the clinic had no experience with Lyme disease and I was underwhelmed by her advice.
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-08 10:31 PM
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9. Welcome.
I was skeptical of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome until this bout with Lyme disease. I would get off work and go to bed then get up about 45 minutes before I had to go back to work. It was a miserable experience. I can't really say suicide was ever an option but I have a lot more empathy for those who battle diseases like this and can understand why they contemplate it. It was miserable but I'm a glass half full kind of guy. I still went to work 6 days a week and managed to stay married, I did quit every leisure activity for about 4 months. Unless the infection is recent, within 2 weeks, the Lyme titers will come back negative. It can be a pain to get some doctors to treat you when the test is negative. I have a very good relationship with my doctor told her they had done a ton of tests for other stuff. When I remembered the tick she said, "It's probably Lyme Disease, it fits, let's give you IV antibiotics for 3 days and see what happens. We'll do the test it will come back negative but by then you should be better." She was right. Some doctors will prescribe oral antibiotics for several weeks to get the titers back up to show a positive test, at least I have read about them doing that.

David
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 07:00 AM
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11. You have a very good doctor.
Unfortunately for me, I am unemployed, uninsured and allergic to penicillin.
It sucks when you have to go to a free clinic -their hands are tied when it comes to anything serious and lab tests are so freakin expensive.
I was taking doxycycline but the bite never healed, so I am going to ask for another round.
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 03:49 PM
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12. Go to the local health department.
They may be able to help.

David
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 08:44 PM
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16. Went back today, described my symptoms and they wanted to do blood work.
But I would have to pay the lab fees, so I said no. They prescribed three weeks of doxycycline and gave me a follow up appointment in two weeks.
If I'm not much better, I'll pay for the labs then.

People who can take penicillin should thank their lucky stars, it truly is a wonder drug.
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NickB79 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 12:36 AM
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10. Congrats on the recovery! My best friend's mom had Lyme years ago (early 90's)
It still wasn't as well-known then, and she suffered for several years before she was diagnosed and treated. She suffered permanent joint damage due to the delay in treatment, unfortunately.
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Fire_Medic_Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-08 03:50 PM
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13. Thanks.
I guess I owe my recovery to Field and Stream.

David
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 10:24 AM
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14. kick
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 08:45 PM
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17. Thanks, xchrom.
I've really enjoyed your contributions to this forum lately.

You rock! :headbang:
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onager Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 03:01 PM
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15. I tried the Imagery, but(t) the bloodstream put my candle out.
Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 03:01 PM by onager
Now see yourself also swimming in your bloodstream, holding a candle. As you approach the Lyme disease spirochete, point the candle at the organism.

So instead I imagined myself at a Homeopathetic convention, holding a baseball bat...

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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 08:49 PM
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18. snort!
The arrogance of these people, giving advice like this to people who could end up with serious disabilities from untreated Lyme Disease.

I wonder how many people they have crippled or killed over the years.

And unlike science based medicine, woo woo doctors and other assorted quacks have no obligation to report anything to anyone.
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